The Girl Scouts want to make sure every cookie monster out there is able to buy their iconic treats this year.

The organization is launching its annual fundraising cookie sale this weekend, with a technological twist. New this year is a Cookie Locator app for iPhone and Android smartphones. The app will list times and places of booths where troupes of scouts will set up tables selling to the public.

The cookie sale this year goes from Saturday through Jan. 31. They’ll be delivered in March, when scouts will begin setting up the booths to sell excess boxes.

The Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland Council, the local Girl Scouts affiliate, is one of just 21 councils in the country testing the free app. The app also will feature nutritional information for the Debbie Downers out there, plus a quiz to “discover your cookie personality.”

If you’re still stuck with the previous generation of technology, the same info will be listed on the local Girl Scouts’ website, gsooh.org.

The cookie sale is a major fundraiser for the Girl Scouts, but the organization stresses the lessons learned as well.

“Girls manage inventory, set goals, learn money management, and develop marketing skills,” Barb Leman, director of product sales at the Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland Council, said in a press release. “Essentially, the girls run their own business. The entire troop sets a goal and follows a plan leading toward that goal. The troops use proceeds from the cookie activity to fund service projects, plan trips, attend camp and so much more. Many successful women have credited their business skills to the Girl Scout cookie program.”

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